Our Advisory Board

Sandip Das

Sandip Das has been the Managing Director of Reliance Jio Infocomm. He was formerly the Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of Maxis Communications Berhad, the largest telecommunications company in Malaysia with overseas operations in India, Sri Lanka and Indonesia. Earlier Sandip was with Vodafone Essar as its Deputy Managing Director. He holds a Mechanical Engineering degree from the Regional Engineering College,Rourkela & MBA from the FMS, Delhi.

D. Shivakumar

Shivakumar is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of PepsiCo India. Mr. Shivakumar was the Managing Director of Nokia India, Vice President of Nokia India and Head of Emerging Markets - India, Middle East and Africa at Nokia Corporation and served as its head of the India-Middle East-Africa (IMEA) region. Before Nokia, he has sepnt many years at Unilever in various leadership positions. Mr. Shivakumar is an Engineer from IIT, Chennai and holds an MBA from IIM, Calcutta.

Sandeep Ahuja

Sandeep is Managing Director of VLCC Health Care Ltd, and also the head of VLCC’s international operations, based in Dubai. He is a graduate in economics and a postgraduate in marketing and advertising. Prior to joining VLCC, he was Director and CEO of Lexicon Public Relations and Corporate Consultants Limited, an affiliate of Fleishman-Hillard, Inc. Sandeep’s varied expertise and experience of over two decades spans marketing, communications strategy development, media relations and brand communications.

Pritha Dutt

Pritha Dutt is a Director at Empower Pragati. Pritha drives the Human Resources, Training and Process Quality function across the country. Pritha holds a Bachelors Degree in Economics and Political Science and a PGDPM & IR from XLRI-Jamshedpur and a recipient of the British Chevening Young Managers Award for scholarship to Leeds University, UK for the year 1997. She has over 20 years experience in India and abroad as a HR professional which includes AKZO Nobel-Singapore, Bharti Televentures Ltd, EIH Hotels amongst others. Her last assignment was as President , Capacity Building Division for Feedback Ventures Pvt Ltd.

Hemant Sachdev

An active leader at FICCI, CII, Hemant Sachdev was the JMD & lead the Consumer and Online Businesses at Microsoft India. He has over 20 years of experience in managing operations, retail and strategic marketing in service and media companies. In his last assignment as Group Director of Bharti Airtel, he led the strategic process of driving and maintaining market & brand leadership for the organization. He has been a part of the core team that built both these companies into the great corporate and consumer brands that they are today.

Rahul Saighal

An alumnus of IIM C and Stephens, Rahul is the CEO of Net Impact solutions (marketing and advisory company), Rahul has been the Marketing head of Samsung India, and the CMO of Aircel. He has been winning many awards and accolades for his initiatives. Prior to this he spent a long innings in sales and marketing in Hindustan Lever across various product categories. He has worked across a wide breadth of FMCG categories spanning Foods to Personal products.

Arvind R Vohra

Arvind R Vohra is the Head of Gionee's smartphone, India. Arvind gave up a cushy job to get into entrepreneurship way back in 2008. He partnered with Gionee to launch this brand in India in March 2013.Arvind has played a key role in companies like Samsung and Salora before this. An alumnus of IMDR, Arvind also runs a organization called leukemiacrusaders with a vision to heal children suffering from Luekemia